Empire of Japan (jpn)

Empire of Japan

Empire of Japan ranks 190th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Medina, Kharkiv, and Brno. Memorable people born in Empire of Japan include Olivia de Havilland, Takashi Kasahara, and Chiune Sugihara. Memorable people who died in Empire of Japan include Akashi Motojiro, Tanaka Giichi, and Nicholas of Japan. Empire of Japan has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and military personnels. Empire of Japan is located in Japan.

The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on January 3, 1868, until the Constitution of Japan took effect on May 3, 1947. From 1910 to 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kurils, Karafuto, Korea, and Taiwan. The South Seas Mandate and concessions such as the Kwantung Leased Territory were de jure not internal parts of the empire but dependent territories. In the closing stages of World War II, with Japan defeated alongside the rest of the Axis powers, the formalized surrender was issued on September 2, 1945, in compliance with the Potsdam Declaration of the Allies, and the empire's territory subsequently shrunk to cover only the Japanese archipelago resembling modern Japan. Read more on Wikipedia